Spooky Halloween Cupcakes
Looking for a fun and easy Halloween baking activity with the kids? These spooky Halloween cupcakes are the perfect treat! Simple to make, with plenty of room for creativity in the decorations, they’re the ideal way to get little hands involved in the kitchen.
Equipment
Ingredients
- 150 g butter softened
- 120 g caster sugar
- 1 large egg
- 175 g plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 100 ml whole milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Buttercream:
- 500 g icing sugar
- 180 g butter softened
- 1 teaspoon whole milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven 170ºC. Line a cupcake tray with Halloween baking cakes. Measure the butter and sugar into a mixing bowl and beat with a wooden spoon or an electric mixer until light and fluffy. This will take a few minutes.
- Crack in the egg and beat well.
- Sieve the flour and baking powder into a separate bowl, mix well. Measure the milk into a jug and stir in the vanilla extract.
- Sieve HALF the flour and pour HALF the milk into the main mixing bowl, beat until smooth.
- Sieve in the other half of the flour and pour in the other half of the milk, don’t beat this time. Just stir to combine.
- Scoop into the cupcake tray. Don’t overfill the cupcakes, leave room. rise. Bake for 12-18 minutes, use a cocktail stick to check they’re done.Set aside to cool competely
- For the buttercream, beat the butter, icing sugar for about 5 minutes until its really light and fluffy, add the milk to loosen. Put half into a piping bag and add orange colouring to the other half, beat again and put in a second piping bake.
- Decorate the cooled as you wish!
- Store for up to 3 days at room temperature.
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